Chinese consortium launches 10,000 protists genome program
The joint program of CAS Institute of Hydrobiology, Tibet University, Henan Agricultural University, CAAS Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, CAS Beijing Institute of Genomics and Huazhong University of Science and Technology starts out with over 3,000 species of eukaryotic algae and protozoa kept by CAS Institute of Hydrobiology and is scheduled to extend to 10,000 protists within 3 years. Its goal is to better understand biodiversity, the origin and evolution of multicellular organisms and sexual reproduction, and to push forward the research on environmental protection, nutrition and disease control.
Xinhua news release, January 3, 2020
China opens tsunami warning center on the South China Sea
The center, built and managed by China, monitors major earthquake subduction zones -- where the Earth plates converge -- in the South China, Sulu and Sulawesi seas and provides 24-hour uninterrupted warning services. Until now, services relied on American and Japanese...
Gan Li Pharmaceuticals competes on recombinant insulin markets
The company, which has just started clinical phase III in the USA on glargine, in 2015 ranked 3d in the Chinese insulin market, with 11.2%, behind 53.1% of Nordisk and 26.7% of Sanofi, but has overtaken Eli Lilly (9%). Prices offered by Gan Li are about 20 % under...
New type of rapeseed oil approved in China
CAAS has approved a novel type of rapeseed oil „Zhong Yusha 1“, obtained from radiation-induced mutagenesis of an African variety of rapeseed. Characteristics are high yield, high oil content and good quality. The tuber seed oil content is 31.3%, which is the oilseed...
East Asia VLBI radio telescope Network starts scientific commission
The network is composed of 21 radio telescopes from China, Japan and South Korea. Some new telescopes are under construction (e.g., a 110 meter telescope in Xinjiang, China) or planned (Thailand VLBI network, the expansion of KVN), continuously enlarging the EAVN...
China Launches Electromagnetic Satellite to Study Earthquake Precursors
Known as Zhangheng 1 in Chinese, the satellite will help scientists monitor the electromagnetic field, ionospheric plasma and high-energy particles for an expected mission life of five years. It s named after Zhang Heng, a renowned scholar of the East Han Dynasty...
CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biology engineers synthesis of breviscapine by synthetic biology
Breviscapine has the function of dilating cerebrovascular and can be used for the treatment of ischemic cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral thrombosis and paralysis of sequelae caused by cerebral embolism and cerebral hemorrhage. Due to the remarkable clinical...
Shenyang builds Sino-German Northern Drug Valley
Sino-German (Shenyang) High-end Equipment Manufacturing Industry Park Management Committee, Sino-German (Shenyang) International Industry Investment and Development Co., Ltd. and Shenyang Sansheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement. The three...
Shenzhen team develops promising method for bone regeneration
The group of RUAN Changshun, PAN Haobo and LU William from CAS Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) has developed a novel two-channel 3D-bioprinting method to fabricate osteoblast-loaded nanocomposite hydrogel constructs. The encapsulated osteoblasts...
China takes action in microbiome research
In October 2017, the CAS Institute of Microbiology, jointly with the Microbial Resource Collection Center of 12 countries around the world, announced the co-sponsorship of a collaborative global and indigenous microbial genome sequencing program. The program will...
CAS group achieves overproduction of carotenoids in Chlorella
The group of HUANG Junchao from CAS Kunming Institute of Botany succeeded to generate a mutant of Chlorella zofingiensis (CZ-bkt1) which accumulated zeaxanthin up to 7 mg/g when induced by high light irradiation and nitrogen deficiency, and 36 mg/L by additional...
CAE and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences jointly establish China Agricultural Development Strategy Research Institute
The objective is to create a full-time strategic consulting team devoted to the major strategic issues concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers in China and the frontier scientific and technological issues in agriculture so as to provide scientific and...
CAS Hefei Institute of Physical science builds “virtual human” for radiation assessment
In view of the expansion of China’s nuclear power plants, the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology, Hefei Institute of Material Science, CAS, and the Chinese PLA Military Medical University (Third Military Medical University) radiation dose database built a Chinese...